A view of the Montreal "West Island" suburb of Sainte Anne de Bellevue, on the southwestern tip of Montreal Island, as well as the southeastern end of the Sainte Anne's Canal, as seen looking east from the Galipeault Bridge.
It looks like winter, but it was actually a rather snowy day in early April.
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This is an Autostitch panorama of Sainte Anne's Street in the Montreal "West Island" suburb of Sainte Anne de Bellevue, on the southwest tip of Montreal Island, on a very snowy day in early April.
This block has the Rex, an old-timey movie theatre that was closed for years but which was reopened in the early 1990s as a second-run movie theatre, then closed, re-opened as a live venue for bands and shows, closed again, re-opened as some kind of café thing with movies on the wall, and it's been closed for several years, though, evidently, someone had just recently bought it when I took this picture.
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This is an Autostitch panorama of Sainte Anne's Street in the Montreal "West Island" suburb of Sainte Anne de Bellevue, on the southwest tip of Montreal Island, on a very snowy day in early April.
This is the southwest side of the street, just before it dips under Highway 20's Galipeault Bridge. It features several restaurants and a small ice cream stand that probably wasn't doing much business that day. This is also near where the famous Quai Sera restaurant/bar once stood (between the building at the right of the photo and the bridge) before it burned down under "mysterious" circumstances in 1998.
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I was taking photos all around Sainte Anne de Bellevue and I thought I'd snap an updated version of this photo that I took in 1994, from approximately the same point on Sainte Anne's Street, across the street from the Couche-Tard convenience store. That was actually one of the first photos that I ever posted at Flickr.
There hasn't been a significant amount of new construction along the main drag of Sainte Anne's in the 14 years between photos, but a couple of the bars, including the Sainte Anne's Pub seen in the older photo, have burned down since then, and Oscar's Pizza is now a laundromat.
Another change is that, in the older photo, you can see a couple of people waiting for the 211 Lionel-Groulx bus at the bus stop. The 211 (a normal-sized bus) now terminates in front of McGill University's Macdonald Campus, and the 251 shuttlebus services Sainte Anne's Street the rest of the way through the village to Garden City Avenue on the other side of Highway 20.
This is also one of the final photos taken with my Kodak EasyShare C643 Zoom, just a few minutes before it ceased functioning properly.
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This is the eastbound suspension span of the Galipeault Bridge as seen through the gap between the eastbound and westbound spans from the boardwalk in Sainte Anne de Bellevue.
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